We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and Yellowfin based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, SAP and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"The scalability overall has been quite good."
"There are some great automation elements in the product."
"The solution overall is very useful. The reports that are generated and the reporting functionality management are beneficial."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use."
"One of the most valuable features of Power BI is the ease of use. It is comfortable and there is not a steep learning curve for this solution. If you have some idea of the data and basic visualization ideas, you can use this solution comfortably."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"We have found the product very stable and reliable."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"Tableau's visualization features let you present information insights quickly and practically. So it's something which I prefer with Tableau. In terms of reporting, I have to point out the sheer quality and function of the Tableau server, but the first impression is that it's a great visualization tool."
"It's very easy to set everything up."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"This solution has improved insights into quantitative data."
"I have found Tableau easy to use and the features are superb."
"The feature that is currently most valuable is the import feature where I can link to an Excel data source. I'm not using it with any other data source, such as SQL Server. I directly link it to an Excel sheet, and if I change anything in that Excel sheet, the changed data immediately gets reflected in the virtualization. This is something that is very convenient for me as of now."
"The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"There could be an integrated AI that can automatically analyze some of your data and highlight or provide suggestions. For example, when you are looking at a data set, it can suggest putting it into a certain type of chart so that you gain different insights or a trend line. You would almost have templates that it would recommend for you."
"We haven't used it that long and I haven't come across anything that's stood out as needing to be fixed."
"I would like to see Machine Learning for Power Bi Pro users or an intermediate license to enable Machine Learning if you don't have access to a Premium account."
"In my opinion, the software is a little bit limited in terms of the flexibility it offers, with regard to the design of the visualization."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"The handling of the workspaces can be made more granular for user access rights. It can be managed a little bit better in terms of the connection to Active Directory so that we have more granular access rights. I am not sure if this is really possible or if we can solve it differently, but we need a lot of workspaces, and we are not sure how we can deal with it from the access rights perspective."
"A lot of people work on Excel, so being able to export an Excel file as part of a subscription would be an improvement."
"What is happening, with so many tools coming up in the market, is that people have to continuously get educated in order to use some of the more advanced features."
"I would like to be able to set the parameters in a more specific manner."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
"Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that."
"Reports should be downloadable as PDF files."
"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."
"In the cloud sometimes the performance is a little bit slow."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
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